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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-17451: Vulnerability in GNU Binary Utilities

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-17451: Vulnerability in GNU Binary Utilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/10/2019
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-33-1-11-4-18-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-i386-2-33-1-11-4-18-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-sparc-2-33-1-11-4-18-0-1-1-0

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